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<strong>license:</strong>
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this software (<a href="http://www.phpwares.com/content/php-inventory">PHP Inventory</a>) is 100% free and may be used free of charge. you may not redistribute for commercial profit.
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<strong>upgrade:</strong>
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if you are upgrading from PHP Inventory 1.1, all you have to do is copy "lib" and "templates" directories over existing ones.

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<strong>installation:</strong>
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-copy all files to your web host<br>
-use <a href="http://www.phpmyadmin.net" title="phpmyadmin">phpmyadmin</a> or your <a href="http://www.mysql.com/" title="mysql">mysql</a> interface to run site.sql to setup your database.<br>
-open site.xml and edit the database section with your database details.<br>
-go to index.php and login with <strong>username of admin with a password of test</strong>.<br>
-be sure to <u>change the passwords for the admin and regular user.</u><br>
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<p>To change the title of the system edit line 8 of<br>
templates\admin\layout.htm between the &#60;title> tags.</p>
<p>Setup the site.xml file with your database settings as follows.</p>

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	&#60;database type="mysql"><br>
	&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#60;server>database server address&#60;/server><br>
	&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#60;login>database login&#60;/login><br>
	&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#60;password>database password&#60;/password><br>
	&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&#60;default>mysql database name&#60;/default><br>
	&#60;/database><br>
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<p><strong>Add this to your ".htaccess" file to prevent viewing of the xml config file.</strong></p>

&#60;/Files ~ ".xml"><br />
   Order allow,deny<br />
   Deny from all<br />
   Satisfy All<br />
&#60;/Files><br />



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